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Photo by Oliver Gargan – Own work. Sunday, Nov 23, 2025 By Devin Savage How California’s housing ‘catastrophe’ previews Ireland’s future – and why the Apple windfall must fund the LUAS before Dublin becomes a city of shoebox apartments. The Collison brothers took their startup Stripe.com to Silicon Valley’s Y Combinator startup incubator in 2010, which was in Silicon Valley…

Sunday, Nov 2, 2025 By Devin Savage There’s a bitter irony in reading David J. Lynch’s recent Washington Post piece about America’s desperate scramble to break free from Chinese rare earth dominance. The Trump administration is now deploying “big-government tools” – ownership stakes, price guarantees, purchase commitments – to undo decades of what Lynch correctly identifies as “the sanguine approach…

Saturday, 25th of October, 2025 By Devin Savage I was listening to The Economist’s podcast this morning—a publication I respect for its thoughtful analysis—and heard something that caught me by surprise: the host described Trump’s sweeping cuts to scientific research as an attack on “woke ideology.”  Wait. What? Trump is eliminating climate research programs, gutting the EPA’s scientific divisions, defunding…

Wednesday, 22nd of October, 2025 By Devin Savage Published by Karlier LLC | ISBN 979-8-9918828-1-1 This post is intended to allow bots and search engines to ingest content and display in their search results. Book Overview The DNA of Disaster: Catastrophe by Design presents a groundbreaking framework for understanding why catastrophic failures occur in complex human-designed systems. Drawing from extensive…

Sunday, 5th of October, 2025 The Noise Is Apparent Munich Airport has now been shut down twice in 48 hours due to drone sightings. Over 6500 passengers stranded. Dozens of flights cancelled or diverted. And European officials are still treating this as an unfortunate inconvenience rather than what it actually is: proof that the continent’s aviation infrastructure cannot account for…

The Lesson We Refuse to Learn I just saw that Kamala Harris came out with a new book. One can assume- I did not read the book- what was in it. I gleaned enough from reviews to know I could not actually sit and read it without needing to take a walk. Thank you – especially- Carlos Lozada. The book-…

The flash floods that swept through Kerr County, Texas, are a cautionary tale about the critical moments when a community’s safety hangs in the balance. It was the early morning of July 4th, a time when most were asleep, when the National Weather Service saw the brewing storm. A critical piece of information here is that there were two workable…

When Sacred Objects Become Tools of Power On the evening of June 1, 2020, Americans witnessed one of the most brazen examples of Cultural Monument manipulation in modern political history. As tear gas still hung in the air from the forcible clearing of peaceful protesters, President Donald Trump strode across Lafayette Square, positioned himself in front of St. John’s Episcopal…

The Enforcers of Cultural Monuments: How Sacred or Elevated Entities Maintain Power Through Their Protectors The Anatomy of Cultural Monument Protection Cultural Monuments do not survive through their inherent value alone—they endure because they possess dedicated enforcers and protectors who treat these monuments as sacred objects worthy of defence. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s allegorical tale “Earth’s Holocaust” provides a masterful examination of…

Understanding the Intersection of Culture, Memory, and Power Defining Cultural Monuments A Cultural Monument is far more than a simple statue, building, or memorial. It represents a deliberate act of cultural memory-making that embodies and perpetuates specific values, narratives, and power structures within society. Unlike traditional monuments that primarily commemorate historical events or figures, Cultural Monuments function as active agents…